Blog changes...

Okay, so a LOPSA colleague of mine,William Bilancio, had some suggestions about improving the interoperability of my blog to encourage other people to use the site interactively, like leaving comments. I followed his advice and went a step further. I enabled OpenID in Drupal as a start. People can now use any valid OpenID account they have to authenticate to my blog. My site will ask to create an account, and it will then tie the OpenID account to the local account so no local authentication is required. You can then leave comments without being bugged or screened. In order to make leaving comments and signing up for accounts more painless, I am testing out Mollom. It is a service for reducing SPAM through a variety of methods, including text analysis and CAPTCHA images. It is accessible friendly, in theory, as well. Commentary or feedback is welcome. This means you can now post comments without signing in, but you have to leave your contact info and pass the Mollom checks.